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This is a unique book. The author, Carolyn, describes growing up in New Jersey with her best friend, Ashley. The two girls were close and began drifting apart when they attended different high schools. The last time these women were together, Ashley visited Carolyn in New York. I describe this book as unique because it is a memoir and a true crime story weaved together.

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Carolyn Murnick's The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder explores the course of Murnick's childhood friendship with Ashley. Any possibility of rekindling their friendship is ended when Ashley is murdered. (continued in comments)

This book wasn‘t very good but maybe it‘s because I went in expecting something different. The author recounts a little of her childhood and adulthood not as much as I had hoped. She is a journalist and the book felt very much like a long article instead of creative nonfiction. I know it‘s a memoir but it‘s just a bland one. Her childhood friend was killed after they went separate ways in adulthood. Very sad but I just didn‘t like her writing.

I was expecting something different from this book, I think I was waiting for a more intimate portrait of the victim that never came. I felt like the author wasn't sure about what they were trying to say with this memoir and it was frustrating structurally.

It's definitely not beach weather, but I'm finding myself sitting at the YMCA pool while my youngest daughter has swim team practice and getting some leisure reading in. Just started this one tonight.

In 2001, beautiful, buxom "party girl" Ashley Ellerin was brutally murdered in her Hollywood home. Her childhood best friend uses this book to retell her search for answers about the crime and to reflect on her friendship with Ashley and the different paths they took in life. Murnick's meditations on friendship started feeling rambly and redundant, bogging down an interesting true crime case involving an alleged serial killer.

I ❤️ the new bookmark I got from Shutterfly! love my sweet Heidi girl!! #catsoflitsy

I picked this up because it looked interesting and am on a bit of a true crime kick. I didn't know much about the book before I started reading it and was surprised when I found out what murder was involved-I'd heard about it before.

my reading has taken a hit since school started back. 😞 but thanks to the solar eclipse that will be rolling through the area on Monday, I have a three day weekend! this true crime book is a quick read so far, so hopefully I can finish it by Tuesday. #teachersoflitsy

Ho-hum, a little too much navel gazing for me! I know that's what memoirs are mostly all about, telling someone's personal story but while this had a good solid story, buried in it somewhere, I think she forgot about the writing for others part. Her internal monologue jumped around an awful lot, leaving me confused and disconnected. It was an ARC, so maybe it will get cleaned up a bit, hopefully.

Another rainy day, perfect for reading and lounging with Bryson #dogsofLitsy. So far, liking this ARC I received in a #goodreadsgiveaway.